It may seem like the group of people who care about their BIOS gets smaller by the day, but Intel is looking to keep giving power users a reason to play. Visual BIOS 2.0 plans to offer a powerful batch of features that will make interacting with the BIOS much better for many users.

Intel’s Visual BIOS was born out of a desire to make navigating the computer’s settings more user friendly. For the most part, the BIOS hasn’t changed visually in decades. Features have been added, but that two-color, text-based screen where your menus depend on a series of limited keystrokes has remained. The average user doesn’t dare hit F10 while loading, for fear that they may do irreparable damage to their PC just by glancing at the flat blue and white screen.

Visual BIOS includes a much friendlier UI and detailed explanations of the settings that are being played with. It’s not geared specifically toward power users, but it also doesn’t limit the actions of those users either. Now that Intel has the pretty parts down, it’s time to add some functionality.

Coming up in Visual BIOS 2.0 will be the ability to take screenshots from within the BIOS. The days of struggling to take a photo of your monitor at a high enough resolution to capture the problem without screen glare are over. If you have a USB drive mounted, or if you already have a hard drive installed, you will be able to choose where to save the screenshot after you have taken it.

The new version of Intel’s BIOS overlay will also have its own network stack, allowing you to download drivers for hardware without having an OS installed. Additionally, Visual BIOS 2.0 will have a one-button update, allowing a simple upgrade path any time there are new updates for your system.

For anyone who needs to travel into the BIOS, these updates are bound to come in handy at some point. The BIOS as a whole unit has long since been the most stagnant part of any PC, and these features will help do away with the stigma that surrounds BIOS controls for a new generation of users.